Prof. Howard D. Wactlar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Howard D. Wactlar is Vice Provost for Research Computing, Associate Dean,
and holds the Alumni Research Professor of Computer Science chair in the
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. He has been
University Vice Provost since 1979, having served in various research,
technical and administrative capacities. He was a founder of the DoD
funded Software Engineering Institute and Director of the Information Technology
Center, a research department within CMU focused on large-scale deployment
and technology transfer. He was primary architect and is project director
of the Informedia Digital Video Library, one of the NSF/ARPA/NASA Digital
Library Initiative projects. His research accomplishments have spanned
from symbolic mathematics to distributed operating systems, multi-technology
network architectures and multimedia platforms. His current research
interests include multimedia information systems; learning & intelligent
systems including speech, image and natural language processing;
distributed operating systems and high performance networks.